Quotes By Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.

My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.

It's my job to be the Pierrot, the clown, in the theatrical sense.